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Show .NEWS SUMMARY Fire started by Halloween roystor-urs roystor-urs nt Helton, Texas, totally destroyed Ithe Helton compress and 10,000 bales of cotton. Loss $2150,000. (Icorge Obach, a well known Oer-man Oer-man butcher, shot and fatally wound-d wound-d his wire at Hrldgewood Heights, T,. B., nnd then killed himself. No cauao is known. Cadet O. Cooke. Fordo or Norfolk, V.i., Is dead from concussion of tho brain due to an Injury in a gamo of football between Virginia Military in-j in-j ' stltute and Honnoko college. Three firemen were hurt In a nro In fc'nri Francisco which destroyed the varehoiwo of tho American Can com-flmny, com-flmny, badly damaged the plant Itself r.nd caused a loss of $100,000. At Sac City, Iowa, Will H. Pettis, lornier county treasurer, pleaded guilty guil-ty to embezzling $27,000 of tho funds of tho county and was sentenced to , ten years in the penitentiary. Caught in a chicken-coop in Los An-Seles, An-Seles, Casper Benson, n peddlor, was injured by n smnll-slzcd mob that made tho capture. Only tho tlmoly arrival ar-rival of the police saved Benson from being lynched. By the blowing up of tho magazine of tho Hnmmond Mining company at Oadsen, Ala., property damage to tho amount of $9,000 was caused. Thus far one death has resulted, that of Henry Kiel, n roundrynian, T. G. Jones, aged CO years, a prominent promi-nent merchant at Holland, Vn wis r.hot from ambush in his own yard ilate at night and died tho next morning. morn-ing. Jones wns to have given testimony testi-mony In n contested will case. Tho assignment of Brigadier Central Cen-tral Frederick A. Smith to command the department of California, it is said at tire war department, may bo cnly temiwirary. A general rearrangement rearrange-ment of army commands Is contemplated. contem-plated. Grafton Starbuck, aged 48, n miller of Guulcy Bridge, W. Va wns slmt nnd Instantly killed as he was leaving his home by nn unknown assassin. Mr. Starbuck was active In the recent light against saloons In Fayette county. An admission that the Standard Oil company benefited from a preferential lrelght rnto lower than thnt quoted I to nny other shipper was drawn from a witness at the hearing In Now York of tho government suit to dlssolvo tho company. Deputy Marshnl McAfee nnd V. K. Bass of Sherman, Texas, who arrested arrest-ed William Hat Hold, the Dunham suspect, sus-pect, and accompanied him to San ' Jose, Cnl., have departed for Texas. Their last words were: "Hatfield la Dunham." What is described there ns a "gas explosion" occurred nt the royal palace pal-ace nt Oporto, Portugal. General Clhrno and threo other persons suffered suf-fered Injuries. Tho palace wns being prepared for the coming of King Mnn-j&s Mnn-j&s uel on November G. Wnrd building B, of tho state custodian cus-todian nBylum for feeble-minded wo- men nt Home, N. Y., wns burned last week. All tho sick and helpless wero hafely removed. It will cost $100,000 to replace tho burned structure and $25,000 to furnish it. Wrecknge picked up In tho North tea. confirms tho fears that tho Yarmouth Yar-mouth foundered while crossing from Ibe Hook of Holland to Hnrwich. Tho Yarmouth was a channel freighter Hid carried n crew of twenty-four men, nil of whom perished. It Is rumored thnt a batttle between Japago and Ynnul Indians has taken placo at Altar, Sonorn, and thnt forty Yaquls wero killed. According to report, re-port, the Moxlcan govornment armed the I'apagos, who lured the Yaquls Into nmbiibh nnd slaughtered them. According to newspapers received Irom Venezuela, thoro Is nlready on loot In thnt republic on the part or the government party n movement to bring about tho election or President Castro Tor another term or olllce In 1011, when his presont term expires. It Is reported from Turin that Dow-I'ger Dow-I'ger Queen Mnrghorlto remains lm-W- movable In her attitude of opposition to the marriage of tho Duke of Abruzzl and Miss Kntherlno IOlklns, but tho duke hns declnred he will have his own way in spite of opixisl-tlmi. opixisl-tlmi. Riotous acts followed the loss on September 30 of the steamer Stain-boul, Stain-boul, plying between Smyrna and the J0 nibutbnn town of Cordollo, Turkey, In which a largo number of lives wore .f lost. Three piers were destroyed by Vm (Iro before the mob wab gotten under V control. Union county, Tennessee, ngaln voted for prohibition by about 300 ma- Jorlty out of 1,500 votes cast. During tho past threo years of prohibition tho arrests for drunkenness decreased CO per cent nnd property vnluatlonB In the county nro said to have Increased $2,000,000. P. Shelly O'ltyan, a member of tho Chicago board of education, and prominent In his public life during tho land league agitation, died nt his homo In Chicago on October 21, aged C9 years. Ho was born In Ireland nnd served n term In prison thoro for his political activities. Justlco Wright, In the district court 1 ( nt Washington, postponed until No-vombor No-vombor 10 consideration of the caso of Samuel Gonipers, president, John Mitchell, a vice-president, nnd Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, who are charged with contempt of court. The will of Manuel Sllvn Htilslm, tho mnn who on February 1 of this yenr nssasslnnted King Carlos, hns been discovered In Lisbon. fit Is dated i Jk January 28, evidently in anticipation of his death, nnd filves Instructions itB to how his children were to be notified of tils dcmlho ' |